Crafting lives : African American artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900 /

From the colonial period onward, Black artisans in southern cities - thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others - played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few Black c...

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Author / Creator: Bishir, Catherine W.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
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